Editorials

MULTIPLE Sclerosis, or MS as it is popularly known, is an auto-immune demyelinating (nerve sheath destroying) inflammatory disease of the Central Nervous System (CNS) whose specific cause is still unknown.

A vexing question that millions of Americans...and their doctors...face each year is whether a chest pain is due to a heart attack or something else, because chest pain can stem from dozens of conditions besides heart attack, from pancreatitis to pneumonia or panic attack, says the May 2010 issue of the Harvard Heart Letter.

SARAH Palin is fast becoming a favorite subject in this space just as she remains a favorite in both mass and social media here in the U.S. Our purpose is to tell (needless?) our readers that Mrs. Palin is not equipped to lead this country just because she is popular, Tea lover and could kill a caribou from a distance after five shots using two different rifles.

THE recent findings that taking aspirin and Vitamin D supplements, after a first encounter with cancer, may reduce the recurrence of the disease provide enough evidence to merit further investigation with some well-designed clinical trials, says the October 2010 issue of the Harvard Medical School’s Harvard Health Letter.